The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-01-05

Young Englishman on the boat to repeat by
Jawvel" at regular intervals during the pas
sage.
SECRETARY ENDICoTT dropped work for
several hours last week and revived Puritan
recollections with some of the New En-
CHAMBERS living in New York.
HENRY IRvING's favorite color is crimson,
and for this reason, in the costuming for
'Mephisto' in Faust" he INDUCES in a
good deal of crimson raiment.
Mr.. BLAINE Governor.elect Bodwell and
other prominent men in Maine are each hav-
ing made suit of clothes of Maine wool
Maine milling and Maine tailoring.
CLUvERIUs, the condemned Virginia muir
derer, receives q great many floral gifts One
young woman recently sent him design
which bore the words, III eaven is thine"
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY has become the
sole proprietor of the History of Woman
Suffrage" which has been so laboriously
compiled by many enthusiasts in the cause.
As ONE result of Henry w. Grady's elo-
quent speech at the New England dinner in
New York, he has been nominated by an
Atlanta paper-net his own-for Vice-Presi-
dent in 1883.
MAsPERA, the Psychologist, says it is nom
sense to claim that the pyramids of Egypt
were long in construction. Three or four
years. he believes, suficed for the building
OF the highest Ol tnsIn.
JULIAN TRoNAs, an Australian Journalist,
has been interviewing the cannibals and
conVicts of the. islands of the New Hebrides
and New Caledonia He has made speciality
of the kings and princes of the savage tribes.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET is now in perfect health,
after having been i'll nearly all summer, and
has promised the director of the Odeon, in
Paris that he will give him the complete
manuscript Of North and South" a new
play, so that the first representation can
take place on the 25th Of February.
AMONG the gifts to w. w. Corcoran, the
Washington philanthropist, on the occasion
of the eighty-eighth anniversary of his
birth, were a basket of orchids from Mrs.
Cleveland, bunch OF exquisite roses, which
Mrs Whitney called in person. to leave, and
nearly score of flower pieces from those
whom Mr.. Corcoran's bounty has assisted.
President ELIOT, of Harvard College, will
start for Europe early in Che new year, and
| will stay abroad until next fall, spending
most of the time in England as the guest of
| the eminent Englishmen whom he has so
often entertained at Cambridge. This trip
| is rendered necessary by Professor Eliots
| failing health. During his absence the charge
of the college will devolve upon Professor
| Clement l.. Smith, he dean of the faculty.
ACCORDING to London life, the Grand
Duke of Augustenburg, brother-in-law OF
| the Princess ImperiaFs eldest son, is still
| considered in Berlin as a probable husband
| for the Princess Louise of Wales. He owns
considerable property in Silesia, and receives
| from the German Government an annual
/ sum of 375, 600 marks as compensation for
| the duchy of Schleswig. HIS mother, a
Princess of Hohenlohe-L anger6urg, was
twice asked in marriage by the Emperor
| Napoleon Ill, but so much opposition was
raised against the match by the Queen--who
was her greataunt-that the union aevtl
took place, although the young Princess was
by no means disinclined to become an En-
| press.
Mr.. MARX ANTHONY died at Hampstead
near London, on December /, in his sew.
entieth year. Twenty-Five years ago he was
in the first rank of English landscape paint
ers. His pictures, "Beeches and Ferns, y
Natures Mirror" 1.-THE Monarch Oak" and
"Stratford-on-Avon," not to mention many
more, were exhibited at the Royal Academy
and attracted notice as excellent and thor
oughly English landscapes. Besides these
he exhibited many works at the Gallery oil
British Artists, Suffolk street. He gave up
his membership of this society in order to
become a candidate for the Royal Academy
and, on failing to be elected there, he fell
between two stools and found himself with
out a gallery where he could exhibit by
right. Gradually he dropped out of sight Of
the public, and new methods of landscape
! painting came in which led him to be con
sidered old-fashioned and obsolete.